Category: Silicon UK

Full Fibre Arrives In UK’s Most Remote Inhabited Island

People living on Fair Isle, the UK’s most geographically remote inhabited island, have received a significant connectivity improvement. Openreach has delivered to the islanders full fibre broadband, thanks in part to funding from the Scottish Government’s R100 programme, as well…

China’s BYD To Construct EV Factory In Hungary

Electric vehicle factory to be constructed in Hungary for China’s BYD, as European EV manufacturing ramps up This article has been indexed from Silicon UK Read the original article: China’s BYD To Construct EV Factory In Hungary

Hackers Steals Customer Data From Car Parking Giant

Owner of parking apps RingGo and ParkMobile has been hacked, and customer data including credit card info has been stolen This article has been indexed from Silicon UK Read the original article: Hackers Steals Customer Data From Car Parking Giant

Merry Christmas, Readers Of Silicon UK

Silicon UK wishes our readers a joyful Christmas and much merriment, amid the ongoing geopolitical and economic challenges This article has been indexed from Silicon UK Read the original article: Merry Christmas, Readers Of Silicon UK

Hyperloop One To Close Down – Report

Futuristic travel experiment Hyperloop One to cease operations, as assets sold off and remaining staff made redundant This article has been indexed from Silicon UK Read the original article: Hyperloop One To Close Down – Report

China Drafts New Restrictions For Online Gaming

Draft rules by Beijing to curb excessive spending in online gaming, wipes nearly $80bn value off two Chinese gaming giants This article has been indexed from Silicon UK Read the original article: China Drafts New Restrictions For Online Gaming

Three Big Porn Websites Must Verify User’s Age In EU

European Commission classifies Pornhub, XVideos and Stripchat as “very large online platforms”, subjecting them to strict DSA rules This article has been indexed from Silicon UK Read the original article: Three Big Porn Websites Must Verify User’s Age In EU

Controversial Parler Platform Set For 2024 Return

Social media platform Parler says it will return in Q1 2024 under new owners, after its closure back in April this year This article has been indexed from Silicon UK Read the original article: Controversial Parler Platform Set For 2024…

Outage Resolved At Elon Musk’s X

Social media platform X (aka Twitter) is back up and running, after thousands of users in US, UK and Europe suffer outage This article has been indexed from Silicon UK Read the original article: Outage Resolved At Elon Musk’s X

Apple Fails To Delay Apple Watch Import Ban

US International Trade Commission (ITC) denies motion by Apple to halt an upcoming import ban on Apple Watches This article has been indexed from Silicon UK Read the original article: Apple Fails To Delay Apple Watch Import Ban

NASA Uses Laser To Beam Cat Video From Deep Space

Space communications. NASA JPL streams ultra HD video of cat back to earth from deep space, 19 million miles away from planet This article has been indexed from Silicon UK Read the original article: NASA Uses Laser To Beam Cat…

ARM Lays Off Workers In China – Report

ARM Holdings has laid off over 70 software engineers in China, but will relocate some of the roles outside of Asian nation This article has been indexed from Silicon UK Read the original article: ARM Lays Off Workers In China…

UK Supreme Court Rules AI Cannot Be Patent Inventor

Landmark ruling. American computer scientist loses bid to overturn UK’s refusal to register two patents invented by a ‘creativity machine’ This article has been indexed from Silicon UK Read the original article: UK Supreme Court Rules AI Cannot Be Patent…

Japan Chip Equipment Maker Kokusai Expands In China

Japanese chip equipment maker Kokusai Electric expands support staff in China as it sees surging demand from low-end chip makers next year This article has been indexed from Silicon UK Read the original article: Japan Chip Equipment Maker Kokusai Expands…

TSMC Chair Mark Liu To Retire In 2024

TSMC chair Mark Liu to retire from company next year amidst major upheaval as US, Japan, EU seek to diversify away from Asia This article has been indexed from Silicon UK Read the original article: TSMC Chair Mark Liu To…

Apple To Pause Series 9, Ultra 2 Watch Sales In US

Apple prepares temporary halt to sales of Series 9, Ultra 2 watches starting this week amidst Masimo patent dispute This article has been indexed from Silicon UK Read the original article: Apple To Pause Series 9, Ultra 2 Watch Sales…

Jack Ma-Backed Seafood Start-Up Begins Online Sales

Jack Ma-backed start-up 1.8 Meters Marine Technology begins selling seafood in stores and online as billionaire finds post-retirement focus This article has been indexed from Silicon UK Read the original article: Jack Ma-Backed Seafood Start-Up Begins Online Sales

Apple Supplier Qorvo Sells China Plants To Luxshare

US chip maker Qorvo sells two Chinese advanced wireless chip plants to Luxshare amidst ongoing restructure of global supply chain This article has been indexed from Silicon UK Read the original article: Apple Supplier Qorvo Sells China Plants To Luxshare

Adobe Abandons Figma Buy In Face Of EU, UK Probes

Adobe terminates acquisition of cloud design software maker Figma amidst mounting regulatory challenges in EU, UK This article has been indexed from Silicon UK Read the original article: Adobe Abandons Figma Buy In Face Of EU, UK Probes

SenseTime Shares Plummet After Death Of Co-Founder

Shares in US-sanctioned SenseTime drop 11 percent to all-time low after unexpected death of co-founder Tang Xiao on Friday This article has been indexed from Silicon UK Read the original article: SenseTime Shares Plummet After Death Of Co-Founder

Cruise Cuts 900 Jobs Amidst Regulatory Scrutiny

GM-owned driverless car firm Cruise cuts more than 900 jobs as it faces safety probes after grisly accident This article has been indexed from Silicon UK Read the original article: Cruise Cuts 900 Jobs Amidst Regulatory Scrutiny

TikTok Removes Russian Propaganda Networks

TikTok removes hundreds of thousands of fake accounts spreading Russian propaganda and seeking to weaken Western support for Ukraine This article has been indexed from Silicon UK Read the original article: TikTok Removes Russian Propaganda Networks

Privacy Complaint Filed Against Elon Musk’s X

Complaint filed by Max Schrems’ campaign group Noyb, alleges Elon Musk’s X breached EU’s GDPR by micro ad targetting This article has been indexed from Silicon UK Read the original article: Privacy Complaint Filed Against Elon Musk’s X

Meta’s Threads Now Available In European Union

Threads app now available for users in the European Union, aiding Mark Zuckerberg’s challenge to Musk’s X platform This article has been indexed from Silicon UK Read the original article: Meta’s Threads Now Available In European Union

Amazon Wins $274m Tax Battle With EU

Defeat for European Commission after court rules Amazon does not have to pay 250m euros in back taxes to Luxembourg This article has been indexed from Silicon UK Read the original article: Amazon Wins $274m Tax Battle With EU

Pope Francis Urges Binding Global Treaty To Regulate AI

Annual message from pope to global leaders calls for legally binding international treaty to regulate artificial intelligence This article has been indexed from Silicon UK Read the original article: Pope Francis Urges Binding Global Treaty To Regulate AI

Meta Tests Opening Threads Posts On Other Platforms

Meta Platforms is to conduct tests to allow posts from Threads accounts to be available on rival platforms, such as Mastodon This article has been indexed from Silicon UK Read the original article: Meta Tests Opening Threads Posts On Other…

Silicon UK Roundtable: Tech Trends for 2024

In this Silicon Roundtable we bring together industry visionaries, thought leaders, and experts to delve into the exciting landscape of technology and anticipate the trends that will shape the year ahead. This article has been indexed from Silicon UK Read…

Judge Overturns Centripetal Patent Fine Against Cisco

Networking giant Cisco defeats $2.75bn patent ruling for Centripetal Networks, after five years of courtroom battles This article has been indexed from Silicon UK Read the original article: Judge Overturns Centripetal Patent Fine Against Cisco

Oracle Shares Sink On Disappointing Cloud Results

Oracle shares trade lower on disappointing cloud results and sluggish forecast, as company cites capacity crunch in monetising AI boom This article has been indexed from Silicon UK Read the original article: Oracle Shares Sink On Disappointing Cloud Results

SpaceX Scrubs Falcon Heavy Spaceplane Launch At Last Minute

SpaceX cancels launch of Boeing unmanned spaceplane atop Falcon Heavy rocket minutes before liftoff, reschedules Starlink launch for Tuesday This article has been indexed from Silicon UK Read the original article: SpaceX Scrubs Falcon Heavy Spaceplane Launch At Last Minute

Apple May Open iPhone NFC Access To Competitors

Apple reportedly offers to open access to iPhone and iPad standardised NFC to competitors in bid to settle antitrust probe This article has been indexed from Silicon UK Read the original article: Apple May Open iPhone NFC Access To Competitors

US Awards $35m To BAE Systems In First Chips Act Grant

BAE Systems US subsidiary to receive $35m in first Chips and Science Act award as Raimondo predicts multi-billion-dollar projects next year This article has been indexed from Silicon UK Read the original article: US Awards $35m To BAE Systems In…

Fortnite Maker Epic Wins Antitrust Case Against Google

Legal win against Google for Epic Games may force Android maker to allow more app stores and alternative payment methods This article has been indexed from Silicon UK Read the original article: Fortnite Maker Epic Wins Antitrust Case Against Google

Alibaba’s Damo Academy Tailors AI For Southeast Asia

Alibaba research lab Damo Academy releases AI large language model trained in southeast Asian languages as China AI industry heats up This article has been indexed from Silicon UK Read the original article: Alibaba’s Damo Academy Tailors AI For Southeast…

Nvidia’s Huang Signals Vietnam AI Expansion

Nvidia plans to create local base in VIetnam as country seeks to build out local semiconductor, AI industries This article has been indexed from Silicon UK Read the original article: Nvidia’s Huang Signals Vietnam AI Expansion

EU Agrees AI Rules In ‘Historic’ Deal

European Union negotiators agree rules for upcoming AI Act after marathon negotiations, developing two-tiered system based on computing power This article has been indexed from Silicon UK Read the original article: EU Agrees AI Rules In ‘Historic’ Deal

Musk Reinstates Conspiracy Theorist Alex Jones On X

Elon Musk’s X, formerly Twitter, reinstates conspiracy theorist Alex Jones after online poll as Musk promotes ‘free speech’ agenda This article has been indexed from Silicon UK Read the original article: Musk Reinstates Conspiracy Theorist Alex Jones On X

Russia’s FSB Hacking UK Politicians, Warns NCSC

NCSC warns Russian intelligence services conducting “sustained, unsuccessful attempts to interfere in UK politics” This article has been indexed from Silicon UK Read the original article: Russia’s FSB Hacking UK Politicians, Warns NCSC

Google Offers Gemini AI Model To Challenge GPT-4

Google’s answer to GPT-4 has been unveiled this week, with the arrival of the large language model called Gemini This article has been indexed from Silicon UK Read the original article: Google Offers Gemini AI Model To Challenge GPT-4

Online Safety Act May Require AI Facial Scans

Ofcom proposed guidance suggests users may be required to submit to facial scans to view pornography online This article has been indexed from Silicon UK Read the original article: Online Safety Act May Require AI Facial Scans

Brazilian City Passes Law Drafted By ChatGPT

Brazilian city passes law that, unknown to most of council, was drafted in 15 seconds by OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot This article has been indexed from Silicon UK Read the original article: Brazilian City Passes Law Drafted By ChatGPT

AT&T Deploys Open RAN In $14bn Deal With Ericsson

AT&T to modernise US network with cost-cutting Open RAN equipment from Ericsson in $14bn deal, eroding Nokia market share This article has been indexed from Silicon UK Read the original article: AT&T Deploys Open RAN In $14bn Deal With Ericsson

Report Says Sellafield ‘Hacked’ By Russia, China

Nuclear regulator takes Sellafield to task over cyber-failings as site operator denies being hacked by groups linked to Russia, China This article has been indexed from Silicon UK Read the original article: Report Says Sellafield ‘Hacked’ By Russia, China

Nvidia Promises Japan AI Support Amidst Heavy Demand

Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang says company will try to prioritise Japan AI requirements amidst heavy worldwide demand This article has been indexed from Silicon UK Read the original article: Nvidia Promises Japan AI Support Amidst Heavy Demand

MPs Warn Over Digital Pound Plan Stability Risks

MPs from Treasury Committee warn retail digital pound could increase risk of bank runs, while posing privacy and interest rate risks This article has been indexed from Silicon UK Read the original article: MPs Warn Over Digital Pound Plan Stability…

US Commerce Chief: China ‘Not Our Friend’

US commerce secretary Gina Raimondo defends latest round of tech export controls against ‘biggest threat’ as China promises to sidestep curbs This article has been indexed from Silicon UK Read the original article: US Commerce Chief: China ‘Not Our Friend’

Spotify To Axe 1,500 Jobs In Cost-Cutting Drive

Music-streaming service Spotify to slash 17 percent of workforce a month after stepping back from costly podcast drive This article has been indexed from Silicon UK Read the original article: Spotify To Axe 1,500 Jobs In Cost-Cutting Drive